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Quinces and medlars make excellent trees - and unusual fruitContinue reading...

Georgie Newbery is explaining how she set up her business, Common Farm Flowers: "It started with bunches of sweet peas at the garden gate." I'm at her smallholding in Somerset, where long narrow beds are packed with marigolds and honesty, ammi and cornflowers.Continue reading...

BGCI is calling for nominations for two awards sponsored by the Marsh Christian Trust. The awards are for international plant conservation and education in botanic gardensContinue reading...

Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) launched its newly acquired SITES rating system, the most comprehensive program and toolkit for developing sustainable landscapes.Continue reading...

When I got home this evening, the kitchen floor was clear, the washing-up was drying on the draining board, and on the wiped pine table there was one velvety red rose in a glass. I wasn't sure which of these remarkable things to love the most. It had been so rainy and windy I hadn't gone into...

I spent a morning recently with a friend, wandering round her new garden. She's in her thirties and has just got the gardening bug, big time. That's the age it often happens, if it's going to happen at all. But why then? Is it a nesting instinct? A nurturing instinct?Continue...

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Fruit and veg is easy to grow in containers - here's howContinue reading...

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A new article published in the journal Nature highlights the important role botanic gardens can play in relation to agriculture and future food securityContinue reading...

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BGCI membership offer - 25% off the price of Sarah Rutherford's new book 'Botanic Gardens'Continue reading...

There were two outstanding gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show this year: Dan Pearson's monumental evocation of the rockery and trout stream at Chatsworth, which won Best in Show, and James Basson's recreation of a perfumier's garden in Grasse, which won a gold medal. As installations, they...

I feel I may have been unwise. I'm standing in just my swimsuit, trying to be brave in what I think could accurately be described as "hostile conditions". There's an edgy, biting wind coming in sideways from the east, laden down with that sneaky category of rain, which can soak right down...

A few years ago, I wrote about the making of a courtyard garden in Kent, a very generous 40th birthday present from Jonathon Ringer to his wife, Vanessa. That piece centred on the contractors doing the work and the kind of problems that are likely to arise in a space such as...

If there is anything to make your overgrown garden look more miserable, it’s the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.Continue reading...

The Royal Horticultural Society is calling on female designers to apply to create gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show after it emerged that only one third of the top gardens have been created by women in the past decade.Continue reading...

There aren’t enough women competing at the show - it would be wonderful to have more. I can’t understand why there aren’t more women competing to get one of the awards that so many men have won.Continue reading...

There are three things you need to know if you are to succeed with peonies, one of the most spectacular plants in the May garden. Sadly for the peony, many people know only two. Most important is the fact that they must not be planted too deep: 3cm of soil on top of the crown is...

Complete BGCI's membership survey to be included in a draw to win a copy of Sarah Rutherford's new book 'Botanic gardens'Continue reading...